ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,633, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Optimising vehicle measurements" was invented by Helena Gotlind (Hindas, Sweden) and Daniel Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring trailer dimensions using a vehicle comprises generating measurement data by repeatedly measuring one or more dimensions of a trailer using a set of one or more sensors of the vehicle, evaluating the accuracy of the measurement data based on a view angle at which each measurement was captured by the vehicle, and determining a subset of the measurements based on their evaluated accu...